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There are so many of these articles, why write another one?
by adamnemecek 6y ago
There are so many of these articles, why write another one?
- oblio 6y agoBecause they're popular... They're fluff. Somewhat easy to write and generally find an audience in both the users and the wannabes. They will write articles about how to use Vi/Vim long after I'm dead :-) They're one of the social discussions that hackers have, just like football fans discuss about Pele vs Maradona (or these days Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo), boxing fans argue about Muhammad Ali vs Mike Tyson, etc.
- atarian 6y agoContent marketing. You write articles with the aim of getting people to sign up for your newsletter.
- f6v 6y agoMandatory GPT-3 comment
- oblio 6y agoAre you implying the article is auto-generated? Your comment is a bit vague...
- addicted44 6y agoIf the article is worthless the issue isn't with the author who has written it and posted it. The issue is with HNers who have promoted it and highlighted it.
- rashkov 6y agoI didn't submit this, but it makes me wonder if emacs and vim will go the way of the dinosaur without new hackers seeing articles like this. The internet (and our industry) has a short memory, so if we're not seeing occasional articles evangelizing these technologies then they're actively losing mind-share, which would be sad.